[Discussion] Airplane mode is ruining the game IGG fix this!

Being able to use airplane mode for guild wars is tragic for true competitive gaming. It is essentially cheating. Its sad that some if not MOST people exploit this loophole in the game. Me personally am not able to use it because I have a disability and cannot react quickly switching betwee modes as required. Sure you may say I'm bitter but to be honest I still think it is cheating and probably wouldn't use it anyway. I'm not sure if other platforms allow for this similar method of getting free do overs if you are not able to beat your opponent.

I sincerely hope IGG finds a way to remove this exploitable cheat so we can find out who the true best teams and guilds are.

If you agree post a response. If you disagree then you probably enjoy cheating at other games too!

First of all the greatest Cheat is build into the code. You have infinite tries anyway, so why bother with a cheat?

I am mainly talking about the 180k+ Might Guys. So anyone can 3 flame anyone. Where is the competetion?

The whole guild wars system is whichever guild has more might will win. Can it be more lame?

The only excpetion when a guild with less might wins is when players dont participate cause of real life. So your victory is based on others not having time on a certain day to play? Is anyone proud of this?

I can certainly understand your point but I still think any cheats ruin true competition. I know its a video game, but would you watch baseball if all the batters and get a do over if they swing and don't hit a home run? What fun would playing baseball be if everyone got unlimited tries to hit a home run and they just kept swinging until they hit one over the fence? Dont like baseball, we can use same analogy for any sport, game, or almost any circumstance in life.

"The whole guild war system is whichever guild has more might will win." is not true. I am in a top guild and we regularly get paired with top 10 guilds that are similar might but because we have several very high players and the opponent doesn't, it puts us in a severe deficit from the beginning. In fact, if both teams 3-flame all top opponents, we will come in 2nd or 3rd because of the way might plays into the scoring.

First off its not a cheat and nothing igg can fix.
It is a feature on apple products that cuts off all internet connections.
That said, how would igg fix it?
By setting a lower delay time the server pings your device to see if there a connection, lets say from 1 minute where it currently is, to 20 seconds.
Thats fine, fixes the guild wars "issue" so many are complaining about.
Now what happens? Everytime you walk a tiny bit away from your wifi, or enter a tunnel your phone drops out and you will not have enough time to re establish a connection.
You can live with that maybe, right?
Imagine a million people now coming on the forums to complain about "server issues".
"Igg fix your servers" etc etc.
All it will do is create more issues that dont need to be created.
Most people dont use airplane mode at high levels anyways, they have in the past no doubt and through doing that have already found ways to beat the common base designs.
I dont use it personally and probably never will but to demand a "fix" for an issue that is beyond the developers control is asking a bit too much.
My 2c

Explaining the wifi portion and re establishing connection: some phones take up to 45 seconds to re establish a lost connection. This will result in a "lost connection" message from castle clash if they lower the threshold

They could change the timing on reestablishing connection just for GW, and leave it as is for all other modes. It would make airplane mode useless for guild wars, without causing new disconnect issues elsewhere.

It's not that easy to "fix". The reason why this airplane mode works is, that you dont get disconnected right when your internet goes off. This protects players from "unwanted" disconnects while using a bad connection (it's still a mobile game, so probably a lot of players use 2G/3G/4G to connect).

You cannot disable the notification canter as an app dev. But you can prevent the accidental launch, just disable the status bar. If a user swipes, he will be prompted whether the control centre have to be launched or not (arrow indicator). But thats it.

Plus all users with a jailbroken device can switch the AirplaneMode to any Button/Action they'd like.

Yoda, yes I agree with you that by cutting the time would certainly create other problems as you mentioned. So shortening the delay time may not be the way to fix, and honestly I couldnt tell you how to fix it. But like I did say it really is like a cheat because you are given 5 tries, which you can bail out of before it hits 50% and try again. Maybe IGG can program something that if you lose connection, that try doesnt count at all, even if connection is re-established. And honestly do you guys really like the airplane mode cheat? It works against your guild just as much as it helps. But the TRUE stats will never be realized because they are inflated by the cheat.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ping
Read it and understand it
You should gather some info about difference between cheat, glitch and exploit lol Calm your tits and focus on creating another 10 pointless posts

Thank you. I take back the wording I used and replace it the way you said it. I get slammed by my post and criticized for calling it a cheat instead of a glitch or an imperfection or whatever. But you made exactly the point I was trying to make. It does trivialize the most competitive mode of this game.

Yes yoda I was criticized by bizkit and I'm sorry it is very difficult got response to one particular person and it be taken as a response to others. This topic has clearly been beaten to death and plenty of people like it and plenty of people dont. The main point I was trying to make is by allowing these unlimited tries with the airplane mode glitch, cheat, or whatever you want to call it, it distorts the true results. And that is a fact that cannot be debated

Yes it can be debated because there is unlimited tries before you reach 50% from the game code itself.
Once you beat a bases heroes, which is easy to do under 50% the rest is easy and a guaranteed 3 flame.
So airplane mode or not makes NO difference except to people who are still learning how to beat bases.

There are ways to attack and beat top bases that do not require airplane mode. The game is designed with a slight edge more for offense IMO at the moment. So any player that has top-level heroes and knows how to use them intelligently can basically beat *almost* any defense base/heroes out there.

1) This subject has already been beat into the ground but I am sure someone else will post another thread in the near future.

2) People like to dramatically imply that this makes such a huge difference in GW. GW is already set to allow infinite attempts so long as you don't go over 50%. Thats going to be enough for most decent accounts to score a win. I suppose AP allows you do a mind numbing amount of brute force and pray attempts with Santa and other heroes you normally can't take a chance on.

That being said, no way AP is going help a crappy account all of a sudden beat a super stacked account. There is a power gap and AP isnt going to close it.

3) "If you disagree then you probably enjoy cheating at other games too!" Failed logic there. I just don't think AP is that big advantage in a game mode that is already designed for infinite attempts. When my guild loses its because we don't have enough active participation and/or strong enough accounts. Since both sides can use AP neither side has and advantage. I personally am not a fan of it but we will see if IGG can fix it.

4) I would rather see AP in the game rather than potentially tripling up on failed HT/HBM/LB fails due to random lag/latency issues.

I'd have to agree with about every point you made. I really don't know why people cry so much it doesn't magically make there team stronger. GW victories already go automatically to higher might in the way its rewarded so whats the point.

I agree with every point you made as well,except for the fact that AP mode does distort the true rankings because there have been many times I think I have a base beat at 45-50% and ultimately fail at 75-80%. And because I DO NOT use AP mode, my score was lower and it ultimately got me kicked out of one of the top guilds that will remain nameless because all they care about is winning at any cost. Because I have a disability that does not allow me to go back and forth quickly enough to be able to use AP mode. I have tried it and EVERY TIME I have tried I ended up losing the battle because I was not quick enough. I am 180+k might and I generally easily can beat anyone in the 180-190k might range so I just stick to those battles. If I were quicker I may try and beat the 210+ guys but I dont even bother with them now

It is also a problem because it is not made public. Not everyone knows about the airplane mode abuse. I would wager that the vast majority of the non-forum following player base does not use or even know about airplane mode. Regardless of it's impact, airplane mode does help, and the players not using it are at a uncontestable disadvantage. This doesn't even begin to touch on the dungeon problem. Airplane mode is a ridiculous advantage in dungeons, and the players that aren't using it are struggling for no reason.

Everyone does know about airplane mode, everyone who is anyone views these forums and relays things to their guilds.
Just because YOU might lose at 75% doesnt mean that people who are using it would to.
And to be honest, about 1/10th of the people you think are using it, actually arent.
I never have in gw and certainly dont intend to.
Im smart enough to attack the heroes first and leave before 50% once the heroes are beaten the base is a 3 flame.
If you do it differently, thats your problem. Dont blame airplane mode for other peoples success.